qoutea jasmine tan:
NANYANG IS FUUULLL OF SMART PEOPLE. and being the idiot me, that's like scary to know.
i mean, that cynthia for example. she got
80/100 for SEC 3 PHYSICS and was the
THIRD LOWEST in her class.
like hello? i can just go and shoot myself. for i FAILED physics.
ok fine. not fail but is 10/20 anything near 80/100 to you?
and our dear judy got
91 /100 for sec 3 physics mind you.
like oh my god. i would have really really commited suicide lah.
i think what jasmine said on her blog was very meaningful.
The genocide talk today was inspiring.It's so.. so.. typical of people to go, "omg, that's so horrible, that's so sad (and etc.)" when they see videos of genocide etc. happening but yet after that, they just go back to their dinner.and I am guilty of that.(and) Though I signed up cause I thought genocide was infanticide but yah, it's not apparently and there's something called genocide happening now in Sudan; Darfur where 500 people die everyday.(By the way, I didn't even heard about this genocide before. I mean other than showing me not reading up, I think it, too, shows alot about the media coverage on it.)Even MayChew kept quiet after looking at the pictures and yup, I came back and talked to my mum about it.Not MayChew, the genocide.and about making a difference. I just don't want her to be like those people whereby they go, "You are going to India? That's a dirty place."I mean wth. Go clean up la.It's a blessing to help (: just like what pea says.i mean, i asked my mum about news on the darfur genocide and she was like "what's that? nobody cares about that now. the people and the media is only concerned about north korea and their launch on the nuclear weapon."
but even though the launch of the nuclear weapon is important and worrying, dont tell me that 500 people dying everyday in darfur does not disturb you.
for your imformation, it disturbs me alot.
Let them know we're for them. There's a likelihood for us to speak to one today and not see her the next. End the genocide that is happening by caring for them. Please visit www.genocideinterventionnetwork.com, they offer newsletters on the on going Darfur, Sudan genocide. Do sign up for http://www.unicef.org, they do not spread only news on genocides but on children and youths too. Lastly, join http://caxton.stockton.edu/STAND if you may. All it takes is 10 secs.do your part to stop genocide, even a little makes a difference. (: THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING!well, think again!
01) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
02) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
03)The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
04)No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
05)Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
06)You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
07)Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
08)The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
09)The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
10)A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
11)The wingspan of the B-36, an retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.
12)American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
13)Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
14)Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
15)The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
16)Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
17)The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first ‘Marlboro Man’.
18)Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
19)Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
20)Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
21)All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. 22)Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
23)Pearls melt in vinegar.
24)Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
25)The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
26)It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
27)A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
28)The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
29)Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.†The second? William Jefferson Clinton
30)Turtles can breathe through their butts.
got those from jiaying's blog. haha i like no. 27 and 30. and number 2 just gross me out.
i never knew turtles breathe through their butts! small cheryl says we learnt them when we're primary 5. did we? i cant remember. :/
this just proves the number of smart people in nanyang. but besides that fact, ( i mean the fact that nanyang is full of smart people. :/ ) nanyang's standard is detoriating.
well, who is to deny it? it came out in the newspapers. and this year's JC 1 batch of HCJC people who were from nanyang are not performing up to standard. (or so by my dad.)
and even my marcus my cousin in SJI sec 4 knows that only above 75 for all subject is good. below that is lousy. so now im some lousy crappy person. cause i didnt get above 75 for ANY of my subjects.
even though all of us in my batch are going to HCJC through IP, we still have to get 60% and above to be able to enter HCJC. and for some other people who are not entering HCJC through IP, it's a 6 points.
6 points meaning getting A1 for all subjects and subtracting 2 points for CCA.
like HOW AM I GOING TO GET 6 POINTS FOR SEC 4 WITH MY STANDARD?
it's no wonder nanyang girls are not performing up to standard when they go HCJC. i mean, some of us are contented with getting 65% already and they think they're safe. but in actual fact, we'll really suffer when we go HCJC. only then will we know what is really up to standard.
and to get my 6 points i really have to start working now.
and im going to start working on maths at jason's tmr.
BYE.
p.s. i apologise if any of the above content is disturbing to you.
